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Easy Screencast Recorder / Re: ESR: Hotkeys box is too small

« Last post by mouser on April 15, 2015, 02:47 PM »

that's an easy one, sure. 

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Key combination to launch first item without adding it to history?

« Last post by mouser on April 15, 2015, 02:45 PM »

I tell you what i could do.. I could add a right-click menu item to launch and not add to history, if that would help..

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Key combination to launch first item without adding it to history?

« Last post by mouser on April 15, 2015, 02:19 PM »

It doesn't.  You can turn off the adding of newly launched items to history from options, and you can right click on an item from search results to remove it from history.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Error EX4: DBISAM Engine Error #11013

« Last post by mouser on April 15, 2015, 12:48 PM »

I just got a report that someone was experiencing this.. If anyone gets this error on current builds, can you tell me about your setup and OS?
And can you try changing the options on the "Tweaks" tab for where to store the temporary database file?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR in other languages?

« Last post by mouser on April 15, 2015, 12:40 PM »

raingros,

Could you help me understand something -- FARR works by checking filenames and shortcut names.. so as long as the entries in your start menu say "Rechner", they should be found by farr..

Is it that even in your start menu the calculator is called "Calculator" and not "Rechner" or is it that the calculator app is not on the start menu at all? or?

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by mouser on April 15, 2015, 01:25 AM »

  nice

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Official Announcements / New quick video tour of DonationCoder.com uploaded

« Last post by mouser on April 14, 2015, 11:03 PM »

Here's my first quick try at a whirlwind tour of the site for newcomers:

https://www.youtube..../watch?v=gpfJ5ysDzBQ


Higher quality internal link: here.

If you guys think it's ok maybe i'll put a link to it on the homepage.

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Activation/License/Language Help / Re: Welcome - READ THIS FIRST!

« Last post by mouser on April 14, 2015, 10:45 PM »

telephonics, i have uploaded an attempt at making a clearer license key video here:

Alternative internal link: here.

Let me know if it helps.

                  

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General Software Discussion / Re: Seeking a just-right countdown timer application for windows

« Last post by mouser on April 14, 2015, 03:41 PM »

This sounds like a good candidate for a Coding Snack if you don't find something perfect already made..

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General Software Discussion / Re: Political Apps Thread

« Last post by mouser on April 14, 2015, 11:09 AM »

ps. Didn't mean to derail the topic -- i do think it's useful to talk about political-related apps, especially those dealing with political free speech.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Political Apps Thread

« Last post by mouser on April 14, 2015, 10:13 AM »

Quick historical artifact post: In 2004 I wrote a little markov-chain monte-carlo prediction tool for the 2004 United States Kerry-Bush Presidential election; you can see the old page for it here: https://www.donation...ouser/mep/index.html

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR Plugin: FCalc v1.12 (Mar 25, 2015)

« Last post by mouser on April 14, 2015, 08:57 AM »

Thanks for the report Falcon -- i need to look into this.. it's possible i never actually updated the version number of fcalc.

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Pledge & Final Release: Tell When Done

« Last post by mouser on April 13, 2015, 05:26 PM »

Just confirming that the download links are giving 404 errors from google.  I'm sure anand will fix, stay tuned.

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DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: Quick Website Blocker

« Last post by mouser on April 13, 2015, 02:17 PM »

Because people will inevitably want to undo actions, and see what's been changed, a nice feature would be to add a button to open the hosts file in notepad, so user can see and remove entries, etc.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR Release 2.220.01 BETA - April 12, 2015

« Last post by mouser on April 12, 2015, 12:38 PM »

Minor update:

• [Change] If only one result is being shown in directory browsing mode, FARR won't autoswitch into small report display mode; this is nicer to look at when using an absolute path to a file and makes clearer when there is a unique result in directory browsing mode, and makes it more convenient to use the Quick Search Words to specify an explicit file path.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR Release 2.220.01 BETA - April 12, 2015

« Last post by mouser on April 12, 2015, 12:17 AM »

Version 2.220.01 - Apr 12, 2015 BETA

• [Feature] A new "Quick Search Words" tab in options allows you to specify quick search word replacements; here you can quickly specify words that have alternate meanings when typed into the search box.  Start each line with a search word, followed by = and then the replacement text.  For example, if you would like to be able to type "ff" to search for "firefox" you can specify that here as "ff = firefox".  This just makes it much easier to do certain simple things without using aliases.  Note that replacements will only be made on word boundaries ("ff" will not match "eff").
• [Bugfix] Non-contiguous scoring had a bug which might allow some results to list which should not (though it would give them a very low score).
• [Feature] New option to require search words to match on left hand boundaries of words (whether contiguous enabled or not) -- can be useful in reducing spurious matches.
• [Bugfix] Using spacebar to toggle checkboxes in the hotkey, searchfolder, pattern lists was not saving changes.
• [Bugfix] Launched *folders* were no longer opening on Windows XP.

New Quick Search Words tab

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Trouble with plus sign in alias

« Last post by mouser on April 11, 2015, 08:57 PM »

Btw DC member Gothic, who did server admin for dc for a while, now works for wolfram doing server stuff.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Trouble with plus sign in alias

« Last post by mouser on April 11, 2015, 08:56 PM »

Awesome 

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Trouble with plus sign in alias

« Last post by mouser on April 11, 2015, 07:56 PM »

The $$u1 is useful when you are opening urls, because it does the necessary replacement urlencoding so that urls are properly encoded when they have symbols like + or & in them.
I'm going to modify the tips on that form to give a hint about this -- it's very tricky i'll admit.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Trouble with plus sign in alias

« Last post by mouser on April 11, 2015, 07:55 PM »

Ok, so I can help

Someone made a wolfram alpha alias here:
https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=18405.0

Now if you look at it, you'll see what's different between that one and yours:

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by mouser on April 11, 2015, 07:41 PM »

USAF Honor Guard - Rubber Chicken Bearing Test

"To be a Ceremonial Guardsman in the United States Air Force you have to maintain bearing at all times, even if you have a rubber chicken in front of your face. The instructors at the USAF Honor Guard Tech School constantly challenge the newcoming Airmen's bearing, and the students pay the penalty if they cannot maintain it."

from http://www.neatorama.com/


I could not keep from laughing just watching this 

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Trouble with plus sign in alias

« Last post by mouser on April 11, 2015, 07:40 PM »

can you show me your alias (screenshot)?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR in other languages?

« Last post by mouser on April 11, 2015, 06:20 PM »

Try the new beta, and check out the "Quick Search Words" tab.

Download beta version (2.220.1) from here (portable zip).

[Feature] A new "Quick Search Words" tab in options allows you to specify quick search word replacements; here you can quickly specify words that have alternate meanings when typed into the search box.  Start each line with a search word, followed by = and then the replacement text.  For example, if you would like to be able to type "ff" to search for "firefox" you can specify that here as "ff = firefox".  This just makes it much easier to do certain simple things without using aliases.

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Activation/License/Language Help / Re: Welcome - READ THIS FIRST!

« Last post by mouser on April 10, 2015, 04:39 PM »

im going to make a couple of new screencast videos this weekend, one will show entering the license key.  can you wait a couple of days for that?

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Activation/License/Language Help / Re: Welcome - READ THIS FIRST!

« Last post by mouser on April 10, 2015, 03:56 PM »

where are you entering your id and password?
the dc apps that take a license key just take the full license key, they dont take id and password.